Shepherdstown
Old Town · Shepherdstown, West Virginia
The oldest town in West Virginia, chartered in 1762 as Mecklenburg, on a bluff above the Potomac in the Eastern Panhandle. German Street runs a few blocks of eighteenth and nineteenth-century brick with independent shops, bookshops and restaurants in it, Shepherd University sits at one end, and James Rumsey ran a working steamboat on the river here in 1787, twenty years before Fulton.
German Street, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, 25443, United States
A town, open at all times. Shops generally late morning to late afternoon with several closed Mondays or Tuesdays; restaurants later. The Contemporary American Theater Festival runs through July. Free to visit.